From 5c1c68fac2fdcedc169354f6fb309774a8e75b52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas A Caswell Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 15:49:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: document API change to errorbar closes #8586 --- doc/users/dflt_style_changes.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/users/dflt_style_changes.rst b/doc/users/dflt_style_changes.rst index 3d06a27b5cb4..599c5ad13b79 100644 --- a/doc/users/dflt_style_changes.rst +++ b/doc/users/dflt_style_changes.rst @@ -416,6 +416,10 @@ By default, caps on the ends of errorbars are not present. demo(ax1, {'errorbar.capsize': 3}, 'classic') demo(ax2, {}, 'v2.0') +This also changes the return value of +:meth:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes.errorbar` as the list of 'caplines' will +be empty by default. + The previous defaults can be restored by setting:: mpl.rcParams['errorbar.capsize'] = 3